April 14, 2017 / Front Page

Dan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. He was 84. The team announced his death but details were not immediately available. More...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The funeral arrangements are set for Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, and they include a public viewing at Heinz Field. Team spokesman Burt Lauten says family and friends will be received from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. More...

One big inning by the Penn-Trafford baseball team put an end to Greater Latrobe’s winning streak as the Warriors defeated the host Wildcats, 5-3, during an exhibition game Thursday at Graham Sobota Field. More...

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Thursday they have found no evidence so far that an Iraqi detained after the Borussia Dortmund bus attack was involved in the bombing, but he is suspected of membership in the Islamic State group. More...

Six area residents have been initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, “the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society,” the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, headquarters announced Thursday. More...

The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery at Saint Vincent College will host folk artists Polly Winkler-Mitchell and Marion W. Mitchell for a three-day exhibition and sale Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 26, 27 and 28, at the Fred M. More...

Latrobe man charged with retail theft State police at Greensburg report Jonathon Sherback of Latrobe was charged with retail theft and theft by deception after he allegedly returned three candles he did not purchase to the Yankee Candle Compan More...

The attorney for an 18-year-old former Greater Latrobe High School student accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the school’s auditorium and threatening to harm himself, the girl and other students offered his account of the case More...

No one was injured when a box truck struck a car, rolled onto its side and slid down an embankment Thursday afternoon in Ligonier Township after the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle because of a sneeze. More...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - President Donald Trump’s tweets are adding fuel to a “vicious cycle” of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s vice foreign minister told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Fr More...

BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian government and rebels began a coordinated population transfer Friday of about 10,000 people from four towns besieged for years amid the country’s bloody, six-year civil war. More...

Derry Area School District (DASD)’s Early Childhood team hosted Infant Storytime March 28 at Caldwell Memorial Library. Twenty-eight infants, along with their parents, grandparents and caregivers, attended. More...

Don Hasch of sponsor Hazelbaker’s Boat & Bike Rentals congratulates Donegal Elementary School student Brooke Anderson, who was the recipient of the Mountain Laurel Chamber of Commerce’s January 2017 Student of the Month Award, along w More...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are formally ending their marriage with divorce petitions that seek joint custody of their three children. The actors both filed petitions in Los Angeles on Thursday. More...